Damn Singapore and CITES

I have been going to bed with headache past two nights...
Thinking of hornbills and illegal pets in Singapore.
I never realized or had time to think, why I have headache and what should i do get rid of it, but yesterday night lecture was a boon to my headache.
I knew why i got headache and why I rode back home without any headache yesterday night.
I attended Pter Ng' Lecture.

The very previous day I had sighted the hornbill and reported to AVA.

Unfortunately, the AVA authority (over phone) said that Singapore generally allows hornbills, what is "generally" allows ?Who are those "Certain" people who are "allowed"!!!

Bullshit I thought.

That night, we had Peter Ng' class on Biodiversity Conservation, I raised this issue, he noted down details and Prof. Chou passed them to AVA.

Thanks to Trond, who said there is a petshop where he has seen hornbills for sale.

I also jotted down the address, visited the shop as a woman who wants to buy hornbills for her husband and saw some five or six hornbills of two different species in the shop. I felt very sick at heart at the loudly 'caaw'ing Macaws that were chained and were kept for sale.

I can never like a person who keeps birds as pets in cages.

I also gave every details to ACRES, luckily Louis Ng wrote me back asking for photograph.

I did a mistake by mentioning that it could be Plain pouched Hornbill to AVA, but it is only Wreathed Hornbill, However both are CITES appendix species. So action MUST be taken...

I just hope the bird is kept with his other friends in natural habitat (I fear it might be sent to Jurong)

Today morning again I saw the bird (it is a "he" :-) I went very close to it and it started following me by walking along with me. I photographed it in many angles. Hmphh.. but it doesnt equal any sightings in the wild.

I enjoyed staying close to the bird and just hope it should be free soon..

Actually the pet owner is sensible, because he/she has kept it free indeed. But the hornbill never seemed to fly. The habit of this species includes Tall trees perching, which this guy never did.

Maybe he has become a lazy goose happy with the papaya pieces... Damn him :-)

I have borrowed many field guides from NUS library to avoid sending pictures to people, troubling them to identify them..